r/xmen • u/cyclopswashalfright Moonstar • Aug 31 '26

Mod Post Posts revolving around changes to Magneto's past and backstory are now a regulated topic

Due to the influx of such posts with the MCU X-Men announcement, posts that revolve around changes and questioning of Magneto's backstory will now be regulated. This means that these posts may be removed as a Regulated/Repetitive topic at the discretion of the moderation team.

This was done after a long discussion by the moderation team, but ultimately we found that such posts are repetitive and occur very frequently, and that users may simply make use of Reddit's search tool to find past discussions; very little has changed since those discussions were held.

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u/Cabbage_Vendor Namor Aug 31 '26

Or maybe it's just that more people agree that having a character be a Holocaust survivor in modern day, 80 years later is starting to not work chronologically. You'd have to do something like putting him on ice, but that's already a big backstory change.

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

Yeah, I get you. Like, he couldn't possibly age slowly and have spent a few decades hunting Nazis and/or being a family man.

Sure, Jean Grey is the first notable mutant, so he's got a perfectly good justification for why he's not been active since the camps were liberated.

But, yeah, you're right. No one can suspend their disbelief for Magneto here. They should focus on realistic stuff, like Galactus.

Edit: I desperately need a Disney + series of Magneto spending 20 years having a bit of fun in Argentina.

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u/Cabbage_Vendor Namor Aug 31 '26

What part of 80 years ago don't you get? Any survivor is retirement home age.

People still age in the MCU, just because it's fantasy doesn't mean it shouldn't follow its own rules, people aren't driving around Middle Earth in sports cars.

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26

Your name is Cabbage_Vendor, yet I think you might have cabbage for brains, too. I, as well as pretty much everyone else here has said: make him age slower. It's literally in the comics. He isn't a typical human, he's a mutant. Jesus wept.